Hi Kashyap, Thanks for your reply, and I am sorry for lack of information. I am using mpt fusion driver version 3.04.10. What setup information do you need? My PC consists of two Intel Quad-core Xeon E5430 2.66~GHz, Intel 5100 chipset, and 4 GB memory (DDR2-667). OCZ Z-Drive p84 is plugged into a PCI-Express x8 lane. Here is my test script: #!/bin/bash BS=$((1024)) COUNT=$((1024*1024*10)) for i in 1 4 16 64 256 512 1024 2048 4096 8192 16384 32768 65536; do bs=$((BS * i)) count=$((COUNT / i)) echo bs=$bs count=$count sudo mount /dev/sdb1 /media/test dd if=/dev/zero of=/media/test/foo bs=$bs count=$count sudo umount /media/test sleep 1 sudo mount /dev/sdb1 /media/test dd if=/media/test/foo of=/dev/null bs=$bs count=$count rm /media/test/foo sudo umount /media/test done This script assumes the Z-drive is /dev/sdb1 and it is mounted on /media/test. Best regards, Ryousei On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 10:25 PM, Desai, Kashyap <Kashyap.Desai@xxxxxxx> wrote: > Ryousei, > > Replied inlined. > > Thanks, > Kashyap > > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Ryousei Takano [mailto:ryousei@xxxxxxxxx] >> Sent: Monday, November 30, 2009 3:08 PM >> To: Moore, Eric >> Cc: linux-scsi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; DL-MPT Fusion Linux; Support, Software; >> takano-ryousei@xxxxxxxxxx >> Subject: OCZ Z-drive p84 read performance >> >> Dear Eric Moore and all, >> >> I am installing ubuntu 9.10 (kernel 2.6.31-14-server) on my PC, which >> has OCZ Z-Drive p84. >> This drive consists of LSI logic's SAS1068E controller and 4 MLC SSDs. >> I am using mptsas driver instead of the official binary driver >> (megasar). > Is this megaraid driver or mpt fusion? > Driver version? > > I ran simple read & write >> benchmark using dd(1). The result shows the throughput of sequential >> read achieves 260 MB/s, >> which is the half of sequential write performance (520 MB/s): > Setup information? >> >> block size write (MB/s) read (MB/s) >> 1024 201 241 >> 4096 472 262 >> 16384 486 267 >> 65536 502 266 >> 262144 472 259 >> 524288 525 251 >> 1048576 528 245 >> 2097152 517 253 >> 4194304 433 247 >> 8388608 406 246 >> 16777216 405 243 >> 33554432 405 242 >> 67108864 405 242 >> >> I wonder why read performance is worse than write performance. >> What is the bottleneck of read performance? >> >> For more information, please see my page: >> http://code.google.com/p/pspacer/wiki/ZdrivePerformance >> >> Any comments and suggestions will be welcome. >> >> Best regards, >> Ryousei > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html